“Our place is in the middle”: CDU deputy chairman Andreas Jung distances himself clearly from possible cooperation with the AfD.
The deputy federal chairman of the CDU, Andreas Jung, warns his party against a shift to the right. “There must be no shift to the right in the CDU, our place is in the middle – as a people’s party with the C,” he told the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten”.
Jung distanced himself from the considerations of the chairman of the CDU Basic Values Commission, Andreas Rödder, about possible collaboration with the AfD. Rödder had shown himself to be open to CDU minority governments in the East, even if they were occasionally supported by the AfD. “That would be ruin for the CDU,” said Jung. “The firewall remains, we must never make ourselves dependent on the AfD. There must be no wobbling.”
The AfD stands for the opposite of what the CDU represents, said Jung. In its Charter of Basic Values, the CDU is clearly committed to the Christian view of humanity, to moderation and center, and to opposing the enemies of an open society. “We stand for cohesion, the AfD promotes division. There can be no cooperation.”
Source: Stern
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